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Can't save my files

#1

I downloaded sublime 3 build 3066 today, as I was a sublime 2 user a year or so back. Figured I’d give it another try.

But I can’t for the life of me get files to be saved. It says file is locked by another process.

I exit sublime, open Notepad and the file saves just fine. Then I exit notepad, open the file in Sublime, but again it says file is locked. But it is not!

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#2

Set this in your Preferences file:

"atomic_save": false,

This feature saves by writing to an alternate file, and then renaming it over the original file. Lots of people report issues with it. I had the most trouble on Windows, but it occasionally glitched on Linux.

HTH,
Alex

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#3

[quote=“quodlibet”]Set this in your Preferences file:

"atomic_save": false,

This feature saves by writing to an alternate file, and then renaming it over the original file. Lots of people report issues with it. I had the most trouble on Windows, but it occasionally glitched on Linux.
Alex[/quote]

Now I can save, thanks!

-OSMAND

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#4

I spent hours on figuring out why Sharepoint didn’t track our changes properly. Reason? Sublime recreates the file on each save. Atomic save == off fixed it.

Atomic save must be the worst idea since Microsoft Bob.

Another reason to move to Atom (no pun indended) which finally works fast and nicely on Windows.

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